Post ASK9k5Se09hDbTdDbU by CitizenWald@historians.social
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 (DIR) Post #ASJgXPlAK4Oa7itqbI by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2023-02-03T22:37:44Z
       
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       Happy 125th Birthday, Alvar Aalto; We are still learning from youin which @lloydalter connects past and present #architecture and its relation to health and democracyAalto quote:"We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street"https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/happy-125th-birthday-alvar-aalto?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=326124&post_id=100466064&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
       
 (DIR) Post #ASJnprKVFx4kWQAedU by MaxaufderRax@literatur.social
       2023-02-03T23:59:28Z
       
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       @CitizenWald @lloydalter #AlvarAalto? Respect! Wonderful solutions, light and friendly spaces. But: A whole life and it’s works are sometimes deeper than certain quotes. I don't fully know why this one annoys me a little.There are probably two points: - The idea that ornaments would be negligible to human life (the old #AdolfLoos and Bauhaus-epigones vs. newer #StefanSagmeister)- And the degrading fiction of being able to take a "little man" of any kind as a yardstick for humanity.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASJoQ1QNCZvcFsA03M by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2023-02-04T00:06:03Z
       
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       @MaxaufderRax @lloydalter Interesting points. I suppose the first one at least can be historicized: a necessary or at least understandable reaction against the excessive ornamentation and historicizing tastes of the previous era.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASJph10A7vGfoxZEDA by MaxaufderRax@literatur.social
       2023-02-04T00:20:17Z
       
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       @CitizenWald @lloydalter In any case - and that was justified. One can understand what this resistance was directed against. But sometimes, despite all the appreciation of historical contexts, one reacts like a contemporary.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASJqAck0tJGlGY8FwO by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2023-02-04T00:25:40Z
       
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       @MaxaufderRax @lloydalter I understand the need for change, and I realize that high modernism (toward which my taste inclines) can become as much of a "dead end"/Sackgasse as anything that came before it. Still, I am not sure how well some of the postmodern work will stand up over time.When I was in London some months ago, I had the opportunity to meet and talk at length with this architect, who is a big believer in "decoration":https://www.dezeen.com/2022/04/21/john-outram-postmodern-pomo-architecture/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/04/dug-dazzling-rebirth-architectural-terrorist-john-outram-cartoon-mashup-blitzcrete
       
 (DIR) Post #ASJr24rj3WYjq9ED3o by MaxaufderRax@literatur.social
       2023-02-04T00:35:19Z
       
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       @CitizenWald @lloydalter That was certainly a very interesting conversation. And, well, I would probably prefer #AlvarAalto to that, despite everything.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASK9k5Se09hDbTdDbU by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2023-02-04T04:04:59Z
       
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       @MaxaufderRax @lloydalter Agree on both counts! (though I honestly did enjoy the conversation)